:00:07. > :00:15.Hello, this is BBC World News today. I'm Ben Bland. The top stories.
:00:16. > :00:20.Kenya's supreme court declare the results of last month's elections
:00:21. > :00:25.invalid. The president says he will accept the result. I personally
:00:26. > :00:33.disagree with the ruling that has been made today. But I respect it.
:00:34. > :00:40.The BBC uncovers the abuse of detainees at an immigration centre
:00:41. > :00:44.in southern England. The worst flood in decades bring misery to tens of
:00:45. > :00:49.millions of people across South Asia. I've lost everything. I had a
:00:50. > :00:54.cow and a goat. They were both killed. My house is totally broken
:00:55. > :01:01.and I'm left sitting here by the side of the road. Same
:01:02. > :01:04.scientists are beaming as they turn on the world's most powerful x-ray
:01:05. > :01:22.laser. Warm welcome to world News today.
:01:23. > :01:26.The Kenyan opposition leader Odinga has described the country's election
:01:27. > :01:29.as rotten as the Supreme Court declared the presidential poll null
:01:30. > :01:34.and void because of irregularities. Fresh elections must be held within
:01:35. > :01:39.60 days. After the verdict there were celebrations in Mr Kenya's home
:01:40. > :01:42.as well as other opposition areas. President Kenyatta said he disagreed
:01:43. > :01:46.with the court ruling but said he would accept it.
:01:47. > :01:50.Veteran politician Raila Odinga gets one more chance
:01:51. > :01:52.A last-minute decision to challenge the result
:01:53. > :01:58.of the presidential election paid off.
:01:59. > :02:01.The presidential election held on the 8th August 2017 was not
:02:02. > :02:02.conducted in accordance with the constitution
:02:03. > :02:04.and the applicable law, rendering the declared result
:02:05. > :02:20.Outside the court, celebrations erupted among opposition supporters.
:02:21. > :02:31.It's now back to the drawing board for presidential candidates.
:02:32. > :02:33.As much as I disagree with it, I respect it.
:02:34. > :02:39.I disagree with it, because, as I have said,
:02:40. > :02:42.millions of Kenyans queued, made their choice, and six people
:02:43. > :02:44.have decided that they will go against the will of the people.
:02:45. > :02:46.The judges, however, found no evidence of misconduct
:02:47. > :03:05.The judges did not limit themselves to what happened on election day
:03:06. > :03:09.Rather they looked at the electoral process in totality from voter
:03:10. > :03:12.registry on to civic education as well as the campaigning and
:03:13. > :03:19.In a sense this judgment sets a strong precedent for election
:03:20. > :03:21.disputes globally and a high threshold for the
:03:22. > :03:28.The court directed the electoral commission
:03:29. > :03:31.But the opposition says it has no confidence
:03:32. > :03:36.Most of them actually belong in jail.
:03:37. > :03:38.And therefore we are going to ask for prosecution,
:03:39. > :03:40.of all the electoral commission officers who have caused
:03:41. > :03:51.this monstrous crime against the people of Kenya.
:03:52. > :03:53.The constitution states a new election must be
:03:54. > :03:57.For now though, opposition supporters across the country
:03:58. > :03:59.are basking in the glory of the court victory.
:04:00. > :04:19.Alex Vine is with me, head of the Africa programme at Chatham House.
:04:20. > :04:24.Welcome to the programme. This is a remarkable moment of maturity for
:04:25. > :04:29.Kenya isn't it, the dispute over the election being settled in the court
:04:30. > :04:32.rather than on the streets. Yeah, nobody would have imagined the
:04:33. > :04:36.Supreme Court coming out today declaring the election result is
:04:37. > :04:41.null and void and they'd have to be held again within 60 days. This is
:04:42. > :04:43.important for Kenya, really important, also really important for
:04:44. > :04:49.Africa because this has never happened before on the African
:04:50. > :04:54.continent. The implications go beyond the borders of Kenya itself?
:04:55. > :04:59.Absolutely. Increasingly elections are close and contested through the
:05:00. > :05:05.courts. This is a really important watershed moment for democracy in
:05:06. > :05:10.Africa. We know the elections have to be rerun within 60 days, I
:05:11. > :05:15.suppose there may be security concerns around it. Yes, there will
:05:16. > :05:21.be security concerns. The market have already shown they are nervous.
:05:22. > :05:26.The Kenyan shilling has weakened and the stock exchange suspended trade
:05:27. > :05:32.for a short period. There will be quite a lot of worry and uncertainty
:05:33. > :05:36.over the next 60 days. Quite interesting it came to this because
:05:37. > :05:40.for a long time the opposition was saying it would not go down the
:05:41. > :05:45.route of contesting it in court. Almost at the last minute they did.
:05:46. > :05:50.The court found in their favour, without giving us details of what
:05:51. > :05:56.these irregularities were. The report is going to publish its
:05:57. > :06:02.judgment, we'll see it eventually. Odinga wasn't going to do this but
:06:03. > :06:04.was under a lot of pressure from the international community. Ambassadors
:06:05. > :06:08.and High Commissioners in Nairobi were telling him, that's what you
:06:09. > :06:13.have to do, contest through the courts, don't continue to pursue
:06:14. > :06:16.violence. Others were putting pressure on him to accept the
:06:17. > :06:21.outcome, accept defeat in the election. You'll feel incredibly
:06:22. > :06:24.vindicated but it raises serious questions about the credibility of
:06:25. > :06:30.these international observer missions which you have experience
:06:31. > :06:33.of. I was a member of the Commonwealth observer group mission
:06:34. > :06:38.for the Gonnet in elections last year. A lot of these observant
:06:39. > :06:43.groups are there to monitor the days of the elections and before. Some
:06:44. > :06:52.have long-term observers but they are not able to pick up that much.
:06:53. > :06:58.The local observer groups are the ones that are most effective. We
:06:59. > :07:02.scene that particularly in West Africa but increasingly in East
:07:03. > :07:05.Africa where it is local civil society and their observation groups
:07:06. > :07:15.that are most powerful and effective. The British security
:07:16. > :07:18.company G4S has suspended nine workers at an immigration removal
:07:19. > :07:22.Centre for allegedly abusing detainees. It follows a BBC
:07:23. > :07:26.investigation claiming officers mocked and assaulted people. It is
:07:27. > :07:30.alleged there is widespread self harm and attempted suicide at the
:07:31. > :07:31.centre which houses migrant is about to be expelled. Alison Holt has
:07:32. > :07:33.more. Brook House Immigration Removal
:07:34. > :07:35.Centre sits a couple of hundred metres from the runway at Gatwick
:07:36. > :07:37.Airport. It's run by the global
:07:38. > :07:49.security firm G4S. Here foreign national prisoners
:07:50. > :07:52.facing deportation at the end of their sentence are detained
:07:53. > :07:53.alongside asylum seekers, illegal migrants and those who have
:07:54. > :07:56.overstayed their visas. Covert filming by the BBC's Panorama
:07:57. > :07:58.programme shows a chaotic With self harm commonplace
:07:59. > :08:07.among the men held there. There are officers doing their best,
:08:08. > :08:10.but the undercover investigation alleges some staff mock, abuse,
:08:11. > :08:15.or even assault detainees. The incidents picked up
:08:16. > :08:17.by the hidden camera Callum Tulley has worked
:08:18. > :08:35.at Brook House for two years. There is a culture of
:08:36. > :08:38.violence at Brook House, when I started working there,
:08:39. > :08:40.I was, I quite quickly became disturbed by what I was
:08:41. > :08:50.seeing and hearing about. Last year another Panorama
:08:51. > :08:55.investigation at Medway Secure Training Centre in Kent led
:08:56. > :08:57.to allegations of the mistreatment The company says it is waiting
:08:58. > :09:10.to see the Brook House footage but has suspended nine staff and put
:09:11. > :09:13.five others on restricted duties. My initial reaction is that I am
:09:14. > :09:15.absolutely disgusted It is totally unacceptable to me,
:09:16. > :09:22.to the organisation, to anyone else who would work
:09:23. > :09:24.in this kind of vocation. What does that tell
:09:25. > :09:27.you about the culture of Brook House and also of G4S because culture
:09:28. > :09:29.comes from on high. My expectations are very clear,
:09:30. > :09:32.that we care for people, we look after people,
:09:33. > :09:34.on occasions we challenge people, and we do so in a way that is
:09:35. > :09:38.accepted, that is clearly laid down. It's the Home Office that
:09:39. > :09:40.decides who is detained It says it condemns any actions that
:09:41. > :09:44.put the safety or dignity of detainees at risk,
:09:45. > :09:47.adding that G4S needs to ensure there is a thorough investigation
:09:48. > :09:56.into the allegations at the centre. The company says it has
:09:57. > :10:07.alerted the police. Let's look at some other stories
:10:08. > :10:12.making headlines from around the world. Was because of the US House
:10:13. > :10:14.of Representatives has urged President Trump not to scrap a
:10:15. > :10:19.programme that protects young undocumented migrants known as
:10:20. > :10:23.dreamers from being deported. Republican Paul Ryan said Mr Trump
:10:24. > :10:29.should let Congress find a solution. Tens of thousands of people have
:10:30. > :10:35.fled their homes in Nigeria after heavy rains and flooding devastated
:10:36. > :10:39.a large part of the region. 730 tonne trucks of aid have been sent
:10:40. > :10:41.to the area. Police in north-west England say the former national
:10:42. > :10:46.football captain Wayne Rooney has been charged with drink-driving.
:10:47. > :10:49.They say the Everton striker was stopped in his Volkswagen beagle in
:10:50. > :10:53.the small hours of Friday. Last month he announced his retirement
:10:54. > :11:00.from the England team after 14 years. The former Archbishop of
:11:01. > :11:06.Westminster Cardinal, Murphy O'Connor has died aged 85. The
:11:07. > :11:17.leader of the Roman Catholic Church for nearly a decade, made a cardinal
:11:18. > :11:21.by Pope John Paul II in 2001. There is risk of a humanitarian
:11:22. > :11:30.catastrophe according to Antonio Guterres. He says he's concerned by
:11:31. > :11:35.reports of excesses during operations for security. According
:11:36. > :11:41.to the UN nearly 40,000 refugees from Myanmar's minority have crossed
:11:42. > :11:46.into neighbouring Bangladesh. 400 have died. They are fleeing fighting
:11:47. > :11:47.between insurgents and Burmese security forces. Here is Jonathan
:11:48. > :12:00.Head. Two days ago, people are swarming
:12:01. > :12:07.across, wading, swimming, carrying what they can. This dramatic exodus
:12:08. > :12:12.continuing even now speaks of a terrible conflict on the other side.
:12:13. > :12:16.Inside the state, they are watching and recording from a safe distance
:12:17. > :12:26.the destruction of village after village. Myanmar security forces
:12:27. > :12:29.wipe out the communities they believe Harbert Rohingya militants
:12:30. > :12:35.who last week launched armed attacks on the police. Bangladesh doesn't
:12:36. > :12:39.want them but the Rohingyas haven't stopped coming. A stream of
:12:40. > :12:45.humanity, all telling the same terrible stories. Of homes burnt,
:12:46. > :12:49.husbands shot dead, and of flight on foot to the border. But where the
:12:50. > :12:56.river is widest to some of the boat foundered. Men, women and children
:12:57. > :13:00.drowned. The death toll in six days of violence right across the
:13:01. > :13:05.northern state can only be guessed at. Years of repression and
:13:06. > :13:12.discrimination have led to this. Public sentiment inside Myanmar
:13:13. > :13:16.towards the Rohingya is almost universally hostile. Now a new
:13:17. > :13:20.generation of militants have armed themselves and attacked the Myanmar
:13:21. > :13:25.security forces in multiple locations and the civilian
:13:26. > :13:29.population is feeling the backlash. Over the river, smoke from wrecked
:13:30. > :13:35.communities send an ominous warning that this conflict isn't over. That
:13:36. > :13:45.it might get a lot worse. Jonathan Head, BBC News, Bangkok. Stay with
:13:46. > :13:47.us on BBC News. Still to come... The investigate Paris Saint-Germain over
:13:48. > :15:06.Neymar's record-breaking transfer from Barcelona.
:15:07. > :15:13.this is BBC World News, I'm Ben Bland. The latest headlines. Kenny's
:15:14. > :15:16.Supreme Court has declared the result of last month 's presidential
:15:17. > :15:20.election invalid and ordered it to be rerun within two months. The BBC
:15:21. > :15:23.has uncovered the alleged abuse of detainees at a detention centre in
:15:24. > :15:31.southern England. Nine workers have been suspended. Full impact of the
:15:32. > :15:35.devastating floods across South Asia is now becoming clear. Heavy rain at
:15:36. > :15:41.this time of year are not unusual but the monsoon in India, Pakistan,
:15:42. > :15:45.Nepal and Bangladesh is the heaviest in decades. Millions of people have
:15:46. > :15:47.been forced from their homes. A third of Bangladesh is still under
:15:48. > :15:48.water. Those least able to cope
:15:49. > :15:52.are the hardest hit by the floods. Budhia Devi says her
:15:53. > :16:00.life has been ruined. My house is totally broken
:16:01. > :16:14.and I'm just left sitting The people here are subsistence
:16:15. > :16:22.farmers, some of the poorest The floodwaters have
:16:23. > :16:25.begun to drain back. Only to reveal the wreckage
:16:26. > :16:27.of homes and of lives. More than 500 people have died just
:16:28. > :16:30.in this one Indian state, 17 million affected,
:16:31. > :16:32.and now there are new concerns - houses, schools, roads -
:16:33. > :16:35.they all need to be rebuilt and then of course there is
:16:36. > :16:37.the danger of disease. Filthy water, hot weather,
:16:38. > :16:40.and the lack of basic sanitation can Filthy water, hot weather,
:16:41. > :16:59.and the lack of basic sanitation can People remained in water
:17:00. > :17:06.three days, four days. Their homes were
:17:07. > :17:09.submerged in the water. They remained in the water but due
:17:10. > :17:11.to waterborne dieases, they were drinking contaminated
:17:12. > :17:13.water, so it's a huge risk. And this is a snapshot from just one
:17:14. > :17:20.tiny part of a catastrophe that is unfolding across much
:17:21. > :17:25.of South Asia. The region floods every year,
:17:26. > :17:29.but this is different. Exceptional rains have
:17:30. > :17:30.brought devastation right across the foothills
:17:31. > :17:32.of the Himalayas, from Bangladesh in the east, across India and Nepal,
:17:33. > :17:36.all the way to the West coast The death toll from the collapse
:17:37. > :17:46.of a single building in the Indian financial capital,
:17:47. > :18:03.Mumbai, rose to 33 today. Police suspect it was weakened
:18:04. > :18:06.by the torrential rains. And 16 people have died
:18:07. > :18:08.in flash floods in Karachi, Eid, one of the holiest dates
:18:09. > :18:20.in the Muslim calendar, is tomorrow. It is typically one of the busiest
:18:21. > :18:25.periods for the city as families But the monsoon's fury
:18:26. > :18:38.is not spent yet. More rain is forecast
:18:39. > :18:48.across the region. Donald Trump has declared this
:18:49. > :18:51.coming Sunday to be a national day of prayer. The mayor of Houston has
:18:52. > :18:56.warned parts of the city may remain underwater for two weeks. Storm
:18:57. > :18:58.Harvey has displaced more than 1 million people with more than 40
:18:59. > :19:03.feared dead. The flooding has knocked out the water supply to more
:19:04. > :19:07.than 100,000 people in the town of Beaumont. Some estimates put the
:19:08. > :19:14.economic cost at more than $50 billion. Time for a round-up of all
:19:15. > :19:18.the day's sport. Katherine Downes is at BBC sport centre. Its
:19:19. > :19:22.international weekend for football as teams and the latest round of
:19:23. > :19:28.World Cup qualifiers. These are the latest scores. Germany one goal up
:19:29. > :19:33.against the Czech Republic. Scotland beating Lithuania 3-0 in a must win
:19:34. > :19:45.match for the Scots. England 1-0 up against Malta thanks to a goal from
:19:46. > :19:50.Harry Kane. Paris Saint-Germain page ?200 million for Brazil's Neymar,
:19:51. > :19:55.doubling the world record for a transfer. David Ornstein has more
:19:56. > :19:58.details. Normally when Uefa look into financial fair play its
:19:59. > :20:01.retrospective analysis, but here they've gone on the front foot and
:20:02. > :20:07.said they are going to look into Paris Saint-Germain's financial fair
:20:08. > :20:11.play compliance. Due to the recent transfer activities. By that they
:20:12. > :20:20.mean the world record signing of Neymar from Barcelona for around
:20:21. > :20:25.?198 million. The loan deal from Monaco, a loan deal with an option
:20:26. > :20:33.to buy at the end. Many people think it's an obligation to buy for ?166
:20:34. > :20:36.million. It's a way to navigate around financial fair play
:20:37. > :20:40.regulations. Uefa have said the investigation will focus on the
:20:41. > :20:44.compliance of the club with a break even requirement, particularly in
:20:45. > :20:51.light of its recent transfer activities. That break even
:20:52. > :20:56.requirement, all clubs have to live within their means, not allowed to
:20:57. > :21:00.spend more than they earn. Uefa say they aren't going to give any more
:21:01. > :21:04.comment on this. An interesting paragraph of this statement, they
:21:05. > :21:12.said financial fair play is a crucial governance mechanism for the
:21:13. > :21:17.stability of club football, they are trying to keep every club on a level
:21:18. > :21:22.playing field. At the time of the Neymar transfer, the PSG president
:21:23. > :21:25.told the Associated Press in relation to whether they would
:21:26. > :21:32.comply with financial fair play, go and have a coffee and don't worry
:21:33. > :21:37.about us. We're in hands, thank you. Another big name out of the US open.
:21:38. > :21:43.Marin Cilic beaten by Diego Schwartzman. Petra Kvitova made it
:21:44. > :21:46.through to the fourth round. She makes a comeback from the knife
:21:47. > :21:50.attack that kept out of action for the first six months of the year.
:21:51. > :21:56.Kyle Edmund had to retire with injury. The 18-year-old is the
:21:57. > :22:01.youngest player to reach the men's fourth round at Flushing Meadows
:22:02. > :22:09.since Michael Chang in 1989. Mercedes dominated practice for the
:22:10. > :22:12.Italian Grand Prix. Tom Clarkson is in Monza. Italian Grand Prix marks
:22:13. > :22:15.the end of the European season of the 2017 World Championship and on
:22:16. > :22:21.the evidence of everything we've seen so far it's all about Mercedes.
:22:22. > :22:24.Lewis Hamilton fastest in the first practice session, his team-mate
:22:25. > :22:32.Valtteri Bottas fastest in the second. Sebastian Vettel third
:22:33. > :22:38.fastest all day today. Leading Lewis Hamilton by seven points in the
:22:39. > :22:46.World Championship. All to play for this weekend. What is the gap going
:22:47. > :22:50.to be after the race on Saturday? Matteo
:22:51. > :23:03.the Italian quickstep rider finished ahead of his compatriot. Chris
:23:04. > :23:07.Froome finished safely in the chasing pack. He bids to become the
:23:08. > :23:13.third rider to do the Tour de France double.
:23:14. > :23:19.One of the most powerful x-ray machines ever built has officially
:23:20. > :23:22.opened in the German city of Hamburg. The facility which has cost
:23:23. > :23:24.more than 1 billion euros to build will be used to study the detailed
:23:25. > :23:36.structure of matter. Atom by atom. It'd nearly 40 meters below German
:23:37. > :23:41.cornfields in residential areas of Hamburg is one of Europe's most
:23:42. > :23:44.ambitious cutting-edge research projects, allowing researchers for
:23:45. > :23:48.the first time to look deep inside matter.
:23:49. > :23:54.This has been ten years in development and is housed in a
:23:55. > :23:58.tunnel three and a half kilometres long. The machine is a particle
:23:59. > :24:04.accelerator that 27,000 times a second can produce a brilliant and
:24:05. > :24:12.extremely short flush of x-rays. TRANSLATION: The light flashes we
:24:13. > :24:17.generate are about 100 femtoseconds long, more or less the light needed
:24:18. > :24:22.to cross a human hair. Reaching the Moon takes a second so we generate
:24:23. > :24:29.extremely short light pulses allowing us to freeze quick
:24:30. > :24:34.reactions in biological material. What scientists say really except
:24:35. > :24:38.this part is that superfast time structure in the flashes will catch
:24:39. > :24:43.proteins or catalysts in the very moment they are made or broken, and
:24:44. > :24:47.even make a film of that change. But the head of the project is not
:24:48. > :24:53.driven by questions of immediate use. TRANSLATION: I'm curious on
:24:54. > :24:57.what I may answer in 5-10 years. Today I will say not with all the
:24:58. > :25:01.will in the world can I imagine the specific use. But from the history
:25:02. > :25:04.of science we learn often somebody said there was no utilisation. What
:25:05. > :25:09.is the need of electromagnetic waves? Researchers hope this will
:25:10. > :25:15.lead to new routes to understanding the causes of disease and improve
:25:16. > :25:18.the efficiency of industrial processes. The project will begin
:25:19. > :25:24.operations with 11 nations as members of its consortium.
:25:25. > :25:29.Before we go, an astronomer has captured images of the biggest
:25:30. > :25:35.asteroid to pass close to Earth in more than a century.
:25:36. > :25:43.The asteroid known as Florence came within 7 million kilometres of our
:25:44. > :25:49.planet. The space rock measures five kilometres across and is the largest
:25:50. > :25:53.to pass by our planet disclosed since the record of asteroids began.
:25:54. > :25:56.You can reach me and some of the team on twitter. Thank you for
:25:57. > :26:13.watching. Thanks for joining me. Time for a
:26:14. > :26:16.round-up of some of the noteworthy weather happening around the globe.
:26:17. > :26:18.We're going to start